Item Description: Rodale Books. Hardcover. Book Condition: VERY GOOD. Cover and pages show some wear from reading and storage. May have light creases on the cover and binding. Some pages may contain writing and or highlighting. Bookseller Inventory # 2688681996

Item Description: Warner Books. Paperback. Book Condition: VERY GOOD. Very Good: Cover and pages show some wear from reading and storage. May have light creases on the cover and binding. Bookseller Inventory # 2674533465

Item Description: Rodale Press. Hardcover. Book Condition: VERY GOOD. Very Good: Cover and pages show some wear from reading and storage. May have light creases on the cover and binding. Bookseller Inventory # 2680516973

Item Description: Rodale Books,US. Paperback. Book Condition: VERY GOOD. Very Good: Cover and pages show some wear from reading and storage. May have light creases on the cover and binding. Bookseller Inventory # 2668357419

Item Description: Rodale Press, 1949. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good - Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has very few signs of use but a few signs of age, such as minor spotting and darkening of the paper. There is a former owner's name on the first end-paper. The dust-jacket (in a removable plastic cover) has minor damage around the edges and light fading of the spine. Bookseller Inventory # 001891

Item Description: Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1949. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (9.25" x 6"), clothbound, burnished-red boards, with encircled graphic to front, and black lettering to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. and two bumped corners, one normal drop-result, the other quite slight. Peach-colored endpapers. Binding solid. Black and white photographs. 164 pp. Part One chapters include a handful of general topics -- Stone Mulches under Trees, Farming with Stones, Reasons, the Stone Vegetable Garden. Part Two covers a series of articles by practicioners and experts with such specific examples of plantings and quality/quantity of resultant yields asan orchard, a lemon tree, baby orange tree, hedgerow, strawberries, and even fuchsias Calling rocks, the "parents of the soil" author/publisher/master gardener-mulcher Rodale cites and discusses sound reasons for mulching with stones. These include the fact that "a rock-mulch does not permit grass or weeds to spring up in its domain, its conservation of water (with softer rocks, an actual sponge-like effect can occur, modulating an even release of moisture), aeration of the earth, the dark, moist atmosphere beneath rocks attracting bacteria, earthworms and insects; windbreak; provider of minerals; heat retention and radiation, etc. Bookseller Inventory # 73453